A MAN CALLED JOHN KNOX
By George Malcolm Thomson
JUST 400 years ago an un-
known man of 43 ar rived in Geneva. It was key ovent in modern his- tory.
For what John Roux fuund
in Geneva was, in a own way,
what Paid
found on the road
to Damasouza, A
mission mitte.
Knox encountered
of which Geneva
man and
Calvinişin,
Was the
citadel. His fterce spirit WOO
aired by the unbending logr
of that intellectual system,
He went back to Seoliand sid imposed his
new
creed upon
hlo own people. The Hoots have never been the same since,
Клох Had
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grent
stones thrown at him during a f Wife; more have brea thirnya
since his death.
NEW NATION
has been said that he was: fond of the
company
women, unlike St. Paul,
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whtu
was prejudiced against them.
Perhaps Knox would have remained quite an ordinary man If the light had not flashed al Geneva.
relevant,
But what cortain, is that John Knox plus Calvisin add up to nun. And Scotiand, ph Johni Knox and
the phill of hy hel
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brought back with a to Exin- burgh, ruded
more important
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in the
watid
than its numbers Jual fy.
In the Inst 13 yrs of his
Wife Knox tere down the ou
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1956,
WHEN THE HEROES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY GET THEIR PEDESTALS
MR PINE GETS
W
HO exactly ure the Jewish mem hers of Britain's House of Lords?
MADY
how
the overwhelming transcendance of
downright offensive.
But for one week-end they
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PICKLE OVER THE JEWS
this mun
the are
It has been called ntolerant, questions of the hour.
a failing of most ord Whist ase hammered out in an
That
By ROBERT PITMAN
So much for the Pine story lu cate.
But
other ancestors into Jewish which haVO
everyone.
one
there are many peora whose But what of the unpub. living khed chapter? What of
married the have chapter on the Jewish peerst families-alliances Why has that given offence? long since been forgotton by the feudal Scotland and built a new And
public. Here other about how an ancestor had
ere, according to He took on Hugh Richard
Pino provides o list of 14 Jewish authority, are som€¡mmm 0039
British pers have made burned cakes with King Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Jewish peers. But their names The Duke of St Albans; the Few nations I stray-the Jews
May perhaps, the themselves rich by marry Alfred or sat on the beach Duke of Westminster. The are already freely available. Marquis of Bute; the Viscounts Ads Auck- with Canute, it was sure of duke used to cheer himself They are all men who have berning into Jewish families?
Galway, Gage; the Lords Russians by Lenbi-have so reshaped by one man.
staying in Burke's.
with the thought that the made no secret of their family land, Save and Sele, Burnham, Herschell, Melchott, Culvinisin 213 beve ended For you these questionS
But not under the rule of Grosvenor blood originally and faith. They are:-
Strachic, Roborough, Michelham, narrow and gloomy. Some may be fascinating if hardly Fine. He quickly spotted Issued from a friend of the The Marquis of Reading; Need any Jew be offended if has been let into it suner then | vital, Or they may
but it
the trees which had bogus Conqueror Gilbert Gros Viscounts Samuel and Bearsted; Pine gives information of this Lords Rothechild, Jessel. Man- kind? Of course not. It is of They were weeded Venour (i.e.. Great Hunter). croft, Cohen of Walmer, Nathan, Interest roofs. Ha essence
to
The sense of the
out. Soon Pine was moving
Morris of Kenwood, Greesh, number of Jewish and partly God.
But Pine spoiled it all by skin, Cohen of Birkenhead. Jewish peers among the aristocrats with
1 a measura of telling the readers of Tatler Hore-Belisho, Swaything. the zeal of a guillotine.
the Immense contribution which was 10 such He offended
a Major that there
Jewish community has There is no offence in giving made to British life,
Then what is the these names. jittle aristocracy's full-time General Wake by tearing person. He pointed out that
Grosvenors
But what of
Leglie were cause of the strife? Largely, i putionce with inttal fabbiness Boswell, Leslie Gilbert Pine, up his claim to be descended the
himself? nobodies until 1676, when suspect it is that Pine has gone
Who exactly in be? He was born 40 years ago to editor of Burke's Peerage. from Hereward the Wake.
one of them married an to turn up some Christian Bristol. He went to a school in This mouth his latest book.
.fowish
alliances among noble Barnes (most famous pupils: heiress aged 11.
families
Errol Flynn, Leslie Pino), Ho RUT by deepening rich in ms"Tales of the Aristocracy. BUT by depo
And of
thei is responsis due for publication. But
Instantly blue blood every
was a squadron leader during where rani chill, The duke o subject which is weighed down
the war. bility to his Mater Calvinian now, because of the way it
He is a lay-preacher, And error-and pretest: made him more of an individual.
"His Grues by difficulty.
And he is now Tory candidate answers these questions, it
is immune to error for Bristol (Central)-Socialist more nutrŲMORA,
To know why it la We wok has suddenly been with- By giving di
the Grosvenor could be intensely controversial, majority, 875 And once more them from Burke's Peerage determined to make their fortune Improving his prospects for the drawn.
how by
th marrying rel world, IL next
Bonveyed the Pine is in the middle of the altogether.
He hint that he might also improve storm.
marriage helper to Prime particular ut them by study, diligence, and
Minister Attlee for being make their fortune." business prudence in this one. This is not the first
This hint the Scots have not commotion
the biggest peer-maker since bus which been slow to take.
08.)
of revolution, It hns
THE HINT
<poch
mali
IN
the
He spoiled it
HE offended the suffragan bishops by removing
mocked
Much of the good and one whistled round Leslie Pine. George III. (Attlee's score: of the bad in the modern Scots Since he first got his teeth man is individualism, his into the peerage as editor ambitions, his tendency to weer11 years ago bits of ermine his brain on his sleeve--can be have been flying in all traced finally to the revolution directions, Once the men revolution at Burke's led quiet, genteel of lives in the shade of family trees. And if any peer or landed gent had a pet story
made by Julm Knox,
The seeds of that
Hosting in were Geneva in 1556....
the Bir
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He even, in one work of some half- reference, cut dozen centuries off the line of Haile Selassie by deny- ing him descent from the Queen of Sheba.
Yet his biggest bout was still to come.,
William Hickey
a
would like asserted that
Ko man
Pine provided the Information,
happened to own the estates where Belgrave Square, Pimlico pant of Park Lano and Grosvenor Square now stand.
He showed that the little bride A
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Long forgotten
1
FEW alliances of this sort are well known. Such is the union between Earl Mountbatten and his wife, who, of course, Is tho grandchild of the Jewish Anaincler Bir Ernest Cassel. And he added a final blow Such was the union between with an explanation of the the ath Earl Rosebery (his
name of Grosvenor, stated ambitions: to marry sonorous It meant, he said, that his heiress, to win the Derby, to Graco the Duke was descended, became Prime Minister) and the not from a great hunter, bul immensely wealthy Hannah
Mayor de Rothschild,
from a game-keeper.
JUST IN TIME-I STOP
A ROYAL SCULPTOR MAKING A BLUNDER
London. Private Secretary, who win get
the Queen's final ruling"
SAVED Royal sculp tor Sir William Reid Dick from making a blunder with his now bust of King George VI.
Back to Sir William
At the full dress
rehearsal
Dankh - born.
an
10-year-old want the latest number recorded for "Swan Lake," hurried Thaarup barki 136: "It's by a favourite star. They don't albemtions were being mado to NOT 0 boutique, but a want to wait, years until all kis on "cygnets," shop with ready-to-wear, off- numbers are put together "I am very grateful to you the dresses of the
to an LP. for ponting us out to me," he who were a bit more siph-like the-pea hats from three
eight quinons." said. "I am just going to start than the Russians wanted, on the marblo fortimate we have spotted this ********
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The 78-year-old sculptor A time on the plaster model. in ordinary to the Queen in
"I shall have to cast a special R ALEXANDER L'HILL- Scotland showed me the star now and fix it to the King's "MAN, 54-year-old Special Consultant in Foreign Affairs to plaster buat in his Malda tume."
The new bust will be placed the Republican Party Com- Vale studio.
Balmoral, mittee, flew out of London for Church, in Crath'e facing that of the late King's the Continent wearing his 50th
It shows the late King in the mantle and collar of the Ordce of the Thistle. But there was no star of the same order on bis left breast.
WRJ
going
Sald Sir William: "I
to show the King wear. ing the Garter Star under the Thistle fobes, But the Queen Mother, who commissioned it, could not be sure it was correct. Sho told me I should consult
bowler.
jather.
He told me: I just can't domesses
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resist bowlers. The only trouble is that I haven't got the cour. at the Bolshol-the TROUBLE
age to wear them in New York. dancers are having to bq.
"There is one old brown sewn into their dresseS.
And the reason; English food, bowler which I wear every After only a few day on morning driving from my home I.undon hotel diate the younger to the office. My chauffeur says girls, Queen
I was told, are losing it looks well-but when we get to the effco my nerve goes, and. "Now I tave left it out waight, mitous ther."
Thor costumes no longer at. I leave it on the seat of Eu Sir William is wippe Honge the straitjacket treat car, When I sclephoned Brigadier ment. Ivm De La Bert, socretary of
The Russians asked the five b's Contra): Chancery of the hotels putting up the ballet Orders of Knighthood, to check company to change the food
management up on the order, he told me:- Covent Garden's
"The young people can afford records. Their parents can't. A far cry from the headwear Their parents are weighed down he provided for members of the by tax and paying for their Royal Family,
children, How many professional people of your acquaintance are active record collectora?"
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RECORD TALK
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I said I · couldn't think of one. "In America, of course," WELL, TV may have the said, "it's different. There
cinema mogula trembling man like Liberace appealing to in their foytre, but it certainly the middle-aged women can hasn't affected Britain's gramo make a success of his recards, phone record companies, ..
because in America middle-aged women buy records. They don't I wont along to
hart. 50-year-old Me Ted Lewis, who la celebrating his 28th anniver- "Look at the gay ʻaleoves' in
company which say as bass of a record-making, which discs are wrapped these pulled in days. We aro, even competing £1,730,000 profit last year. In that field. now.
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1.don't really bollove And to what does he contai- pute this continuing miccesat people buy a record, because it's prettily wrapped. But," ho "The 78 c.p.m;.," add Mr shrugged his shoulders, "they Lewis in his offles, thich above tell me wo soll moro the Oval tricket ground, is életve is”, good." still the backbone of industry in this country. comes it's likely to remain so,
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OFF THE PEG PACK into, busizītos
the Queen's milline
Tua, bust is wrong if it had becs deluged with com- The
the plaints, shows the King, wearink
mantle and collar without the
The fried foodaware, the mer of the order on dan funla trouble. So now the menu pening underneath. trada ti bo bolled beet and
MICH (William would drop And one English me eine Erstinul only be too flakes, of which the
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